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ON THE CATHOLIC CtUESTION. cate the conversion of a member of the. family, or the whole set, as the price of" absolntion, and woe to the quiets and - comforts of the ohjects. so to be.'attacked, if this relglinis- persecution is not abated by the conversion called lUr, or it the spp posed heretic will not submit to be transformed into.au obediant believer in that - church, which knows of no salvatiop out of its pale, transmit ting all those - who are lot within it to hell and eternal punishment. - 7 din mail . ), Cases- does the Court, of Rome grant indulgences against payment of certain sums . of money, mid printed catalogues -are existing, ac cording to which the price-is , ' fixed tor every crime la huni.sa!,triting could cOrninit might be purged from and done away ! The Reformation in the Northern part of 'Europe has matte a sad Inroad in - this • traffic of the Apostolic. Chamber. But within a very few years . a Spanish vessel, bound to South. America, was taken, containing many bales of indulgences of this kind, and valned at a great sum of money. Many people will 're collect that this was Mentioned. in the PithliC Paperi, with the-name of- the, ship and where • bound. •• <ILL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT THUEst•Ac. TwO GItAND. PRIZES of 430,000! 34 other Capitals of 50001., 10001. &c. A A bOVI! 1300 .1 1 1:12eS.Of 1001., 501. &c. k i' ind the First Blank will hav e F our Pi pes o f P or t. }tt.l Although • rwo-thirds of the Tickets h been . we -thirds of the Grand Prizesrentaiii in ave the Wheel for draWn, THE LAST DAY. t ir 8181 1, the Contractor, had the pleaqnre to , sell, 10 .16. Shares, No. 4700, the only 30,0001. yet it 'resides nearly half the Capitals that have been dtar, NI). both the Blanks entitled to Four Pipes of Port NI , me The! , "re, ,re but few 'rickets and Sha res now . to sell; there r ' ;,"189 re4iectfully invites his Friend s t o c h o o se int o y , t . ; tY the Two Thirty Thousands, either at 4, Cornhill, +Only I C . ross ; wilere, in the last Lottery of 'Three housand Pounds, BISH soldthem ALL! 4 w,/, „ Ir g alre a d y sold in this Lottery the only 30,0001. yet '.(1 1 /' not the ist , ,,rds . of the Poet he par o di e d i n saying 11% " h e : re is a g Tide of Blead s FSH's Luck, ch t p l a j t n the Flood, to' your Fortune. This Day was published, In Three Volumes, 12mo. Price 11. Is boards. CORRECTION. -A NOVEL. " The seducing images of luxury, of splendour, and of homages, of power and independence, are too seldom coun teracted by the only preserratire—a religious education. The world is too geOrally entered upon as a scene of plea sure instead of trial; as a theatre of amusement, not action." Hannah Moore. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. • , FOR THE SUN. Mr. EDITOR,---The iitteMpts - of the Roman Ca tholic's - to overturn the Proteititt Ascendancy in Great Britain and Ireland are so dariiig, yet so ob: vious, that it is inconceivable how any. Prot estip l is can be so blinthid as not to pCreeive the imminent danger in which 'Our pregent Constitutional Esta blishment in Church and State becomes 'thereby • involved, risking the foss of. that bright and en . lightened system of morality Protestantism in culcated in exchange of ancient bigotry - and- Monkish influence. Several learned, highly judicious essays have been inserted in your - respectable Paper, pointing out both the present danger, and also the- sense' . our ancestors entertained of Popery, as proved by many historical facts referred to, which at the time of the Reformation, and since, caused the testrietions,on Popery imposed in these realms', .absolutely requisite. to prevent its return ; and- se cure Protestant Ascendancy. I deem it needleis,.with such able disqUisitions preceding, to recapitulate those arguments which.readily prnve how the. votaries of Popery are.desirous to - lead our Legislature to grant them .every equality of political - poiirer, with the Pro testant subjects in these reahns ) . and in fact . , in regard to religious points,- even .more, by - with drawing the Government of their Church and Hierarchy from the King's prerogative influence, and wishing it to remain either under the eon 7 tronl of a foreign Prince, or a domestic Manage ment of the Priest and Clergy themselves. Judg ing from the progressive encroachments practised in former ages, and the increased assurance with In the Press, 1. New Tales, by Mrs. Opie. 3 rols..l2nto. R. Sophia ; or, the Dangerous Indiscretions, 2 vols. 12mo 3. Lionel, or, the Last of the Pevenseys, S vols. This Day were published, In 2 ro1;. Syn. price 11. os. boards,.with a Portrait from th e rare Print by Crispi n the Passe,- IEMOIRS of the COURT of QUEEN ELIZABETH. ' By LUCY AIKIN. The present Work is composed upon the plan of uniting with the personal History of a celebrated female Sovereign, and a connected narration of the Domestic Events of her Heigh, a large portion of Wographical Aneedute,Trivate Memoir, and Traits illustrative of the Manners, Modes of Thin,king, and Literature of an interesting period of Eng lish History. Original Letters, Speeches, arid occasional Poems, are largely interspersed. Printed for Longman,, Hurst, Rees; Orme, and Brown, London. ) 1/1 J• SI VEWRIGHT respectfully invite Attention to the State o f the Wheel of thepve y tof the Tickets are now drawn, yet y t *of th e G rand Prizes remain in the Wheel, iviz. Oapi t (- , P RIZES of THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS . of 5 ,0001., 1.0001. &c. and above 1,300 Prizes of T • 1 W., 501., ,11,„ r ALL BE DRAWN NEXT i THURSDAY. lotitild Thirty-six Capital Prizes, including Two of 30,0001 , e t, truhsrvolain its the Whe e l f o r, th e l as t D a y o f Drawing, i s a ottt ft" f U 2oO e unknow n iti th e. annals of Lotteri es . Th ere are nsold Ti c k ets and Shares, which may be had at .I \o. 37, C o r n hill ; . 38 , H aymarket; 11, Holborn ; f 'l4l, Oxford Street : The Old and Fortunate Offices of J; and J. SIVEWRIGHT.- I 'l •I<< There are, Protestants who consider it impOs lible such absurdities cawexist,ami be belieied.by any human being, but they at eqnistaken, for the multitude of,the Roman Catholics do believe : them and act ,up to that belief, in, consideriog them selves perfectly fre e d by their confession, mid the absolution given by their Confessor, from all their sins, as if they had never vxisted, and the renoial of a new score is the consequence. The-hexity,of morality dependant on such persuasion May ; be easily conceived,. and the admission of it 11,as rendered it easy.to, the Pope at various lime: !o persuade those of his flock who are so initiated, that hellas,the power to absolve them from tneir allegiance to.their lawfulfrince, or any other au thority.' Thence flows the doctrine that no faith • need be kept with heretics, though under the sanc tion of an oath. Upon what possible mode can any class of men be trusted with civil power in civil society, who admit of such a latitude of dis pensing power on every point of duty from man, to man, if th e opponent d oes not agree: in eve: y religious Tenet they profess, though he adore the same God with them, the Creator of I-leaven and Earth ? Who; according to their ; notion of duty, consider every Ch r i st i an w h o varies with thrill on points of doctrine to be a child,nf 11c11, for that.reason only ? I - abstain at.present to touch on other Dpgmas of the Roman Catholics which the Protestants have forsaken, according to my copvictioo g't early tor the benefit of the iluman race, which may, if, oc casioP requires, be touched upon at another tithe. - , At present I wish only to rentark oh, the gre a t superiority of numbers the Irish Catholics claim,ira • comparison-with the Protestants, and which, within my „recollection, has beep enlarged with every new demand, and proceetied till their mo-. desty has taken a stand atfive -Catho lics to one million-of Protestants. I ,doilbt,,in the outset, that Ireland contains six rniilioes , o f inhabitants of Olany persuasion whatever, and if there be such a superiority of Cotholics it ;mist arise from .proselytes mileefrom .Protestantism, for, the well-known strict celibacy and great number of the Irish Priesthood would, or,shonld rather act .as,adrawbock on the increasingoumb er on the Catholic side. The only enumeration of the Population of Ireland that has come to my knowledAe, and distinguishes the numbers of each set of Teligionists, is of the year 1731, whilst the Earl of Donswr was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and is as hollows : if , . GREEK SEPTUAGINT. - This Day was published, in 8ro.• price Al. Bs. beards, hand somely printed and hot-pressed,: • A NEAT Edition of the SEVI:UAGINT, with. Ili the APOCRYPHA, in One Volume. Ther l ext is taken from the Oxford Edition of Bos: Same. size as the Greek Testament. ** This Edition is printed in One Volume fur use in Churches - and Chapels, as well - as the Library. Also, by the Same, In 3 vols. Elrc. price 21,125. 6d. bds. large 'paper, pr. Al. • The GREEK..TESTAMEN ; a NY Vk' Edition, with copi wig' Notes from Hardy, ILiphel, ,Kype, Sehleustier, RoSen rouller, &c. in familiar Latin.: together with, parallel passages from the Classics, &c. &c. By the Rev. E. Valpy, B. 1). • Printed by A. J. 'Valpy p and sold by Messrs. 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(by Order of the Hon. the Commissioners of his ui, ,Y,,'s Customs) on Monday "the tath, Tuesday the 10; '‘,.,','editestla 'the 15th, Thursday the 16th ,• and in the 'v u ri '''"4 Week l on Moriday• the 20th, Tuesday the 2lst, it,"':rl; - t 4 :4' tl:e ;2d, and Thursd the 23d Instant, at One elf \, (41 15, ,gif: Mitt - noon precisely, at the Commercial Sale a 11-11, 1,11...1it,,-lane, l a Tr0f 01 14'ip,,,.. , - , GOODS for EX.POR . TA 't I n , ( ` l4 and other Foreign Prohibited Goods. o'4, r, , F. It HOME CONSUMPTION, -.,141,-..(4tee, Co • a n Chocolate, Sugar, .rind other Grocery; 4 44 1-.,'1ri11,, Suce; L id ° es% Pickles, Arrow Root, Honey, Wax :liel t ii, Caridlos, Shells, BalsaM Capivi and other , Drugs, ),. ord, ' l,'", Bed .Frathers, Shins, Tobacco, Snuff, Cotton k'grile,"'sla Sheeting Squirrel Skin Linings, Shawls, Lace, i ~t•fije irs . . 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A COMPANION to the PALL .ROM : containing.up wards of !tree Hundred celebrated Scotch, Engiish,,and Irish Country Dances, Reels, and Hornpipes, with a variety of appropriate figures adapted to each. Price lOs. 611, 4. The correct METHOD of GERMAN and FRENCH WALTZING. Price .ss. 6d. • 5. lu the Press_ and speedi ly wi ll be published, The LA-. DIES' ENCYCLOPEDIA, In one volunic being an hard- • duction to those Branches of Science essential in the "educ - tion of young Females, comprehending Chrology, Anciet4 History, Geography, Drawing, Music, Dancing, &c. ; fr o m the , French of Madame de LaMemardiere, Atithor - of Moral Philosophy and Mythology, for Young Ladies, with consi derable additions. 6. T he EXILE of SCOTLAND; a Tale; and the Adven tures of Edward Wortley, %%liven in three volumes, by Wil liam Wortley, PensiOner, GloncesteAtire. 7. A complete SYSTEM of ENGLISH COUN FRY DANC ING. Be Thomas Wilson, Dancing-Master,•from the King's Theatre, Opera House. For the convenience of purchasers, the Volumes will be sold'eparate. Vol. 1. will contain the Scientific Instruction for the Construction of Country Dances; and Vol. 11, the Etiquette of the Ball Room, a Treatise up Deportment, and , . a Technical Ball-room Dictionary. which they now demand as rights what on former occasions they asked as,favoqrs, it seems as if they considered the reign-of King JOHN as 'the ulti mate prototype and aim 'of the endeavours they have to. accomplish. In short, it appears to me, - that it will uo t.b e. f or want.of ood.will if they do • not proceed to the utmost extent. Let some of the high favourers of their cause recollect, that -the archives of the .Propaganda at Rome contain Registers of every'acre of "land, church, building, 'and tithes, at any one .period appertaining to ec clesiastic endoWrinents, and "that any revolution or accident aidirrg the Papal See, all this proper ty, according to the never-to-bechanged dicta of that Church,- are reclaimable by it, and that no subsequent tenure of succession will give a title 30 5 gfe ro , to the present possessors. M,►rk . this ye BED FORDS and other possessofs of ecclesiastical re . mains and property in these kingdoms] ! It appears to me few wrister§ have noticed the extensive influence Which the Roman Catholic iCy ' C'. principles produce in Society, particularly what relates to morality and the conduct of man in civi- ;, • Protestants; Papists. Connaught 21,604 221,780 Leinster ... Mun,ter Ulster vi' zed life. Total . 700,453 1,809,768 M ED ICI N.B. , 'll FOR COUGHS, coLng, & c . tj., WALS'S COLTSFOOT LOZENGES . tUp';' s,I,LAHGO was the name g i ven to C o lt s f oot lt i t.o. t ne Ancient's, who knew its val ue i n Coughs, &c. It ki,, 4 t • " in the form of Lozenge, a s th e mos t agreea bl e to 41. 1 1,' I, d also, that by itS gradu a lly di sso l ving i n t h e • (4,. t tt t ' d it may with more certai n ty b e conveye d to the ports I,:,ittiii ; these Lozenges are eleobstroent, detergent, and in -4;,, 411aving the tickling sensation' which occasions -1,,,, tfr,l4 cleari ng the co ke . and producing the most saki-. iil.2 l ile,."' Cif used as a Preventive, few Persons _will he I,,i''k tf ''itli Coughs through the Winter, an d th e i r _ pr i ce its, N, ttlili Within the reach o f a ll ran k s o f peop l e. The ge , AtP. - • , 'Il h4v e the nalues of Shaw and Edwards en the , Vlii k Pi u, a, trii'4l ' ''lSH's • ANTIPERTUSSIS for the HOOFING ,• .11,;4 remedy long approved and reeminnended by the !Olt( i;"es in the kingdom. Price only 2s. od. per bottle. ... ci a , ji Y .. Edward, Paul's, in the footway opposite ---. '4; tint:Ml(l4. to the Cathedral ----.._ A .gtSLE'V'S WIDOW WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS. . A - , 1 -4 EDI(2 1 N E which has stood the test for a v kc; ) ,"" , g series of years, and is well known fonts .peettliar tii, / ,, - Y in r einovitig - the Green Sickness, and other Obstruc- I' - at ilt I- ' - ( • 1 s , :. TI • ses proving that it e 40 ,. I, ant on the eind e •_,LX. le Cd , 1 . . . 4 44 ' ll eted, who have hitherto resorted to the use of a, hive 1111;,`,4 or, y been relieved in the most sovereign Manlier, are .1,4 citious, sold speeified in the hills of directions. In,,' ,PLArd the' puliiic against imposition, the natueof C. • tit t !sivy is engraved on the stamp, by the speciatr permission 1,, t!e'. Commissioners of Stamps, without which they are not („",,lttited t o be ' , ermine. vittirepareil by Art's. Kearsley alone, from -the Original 4nd iiic Recipe, and sold wholesale and retail by Harp2r, • Nitkseller, 4tl, Ffeet-street ; Barclay and Sons, Fleet-market ;, k'''''W , iy and s,ic, st. Paul's Church-yard ; . Sutton and 1 :0• b '‘f.''elnireii-Yitrki: Butler and Sons, Cheapside ; Sanger, 1:7,0, 144,,,.xd-itreet, opposite Hong-street ; Eyans and Son, Long ' withheld; and Johtoitone vans and ti,-41italdaai,—Having for .11,any m ' ot:ths been ,atliicted with a iii_,,.._31.11,91t in my side, with ditheultv of breathing, and tue -1,`2tl Pill, having failed, I was induced to try Your %fizi.lllls, from %%hick; I found immediate relief, and ha v e linued perfectly well ever since. ‘e Belie ve tue, dear N•ladarn, your's truly, `%, Green, April 29,1517. M. E. E. Price 25..3d. per box, stamp included. A NEW PATENT HAT, at only 18s. INI PORTANT SAVING. GEORGE FRANKS and Co. have to offer to the Public a SILK HAT on a BEAVER BODY, com bining every requisite a Hat ought to possess; it is superior in appearance to the finest and most expensive Beaver, is equally light, and will out wear two of them, and is of a better shape, width it retains to the last ; it will nev e r chast e its colour, ;hid' is of the most beautiful black, if worn fur years; nu weather will injure them, they being WATER PROOF, and will repair several times at a trifling expence, and every time appear equal to new, and are decidedly supe rior to any Hats ever offered to !while notice; the attainment of which has been attended with great expence, 'labour, and -personal attention of GEORGE FRANKS and CO. Manu facturers, Wellington Haase, corner .of Redcross-arect, Barbican, London. Merchants, Dealers, and the Trade, who wish for superior Hats, will find it their interest in applying as above. No unpaid Letters received.—Not in any way concussed with a Retail House in Beech-street, naive of Franks. LOCK AND SURGICAL DISPENSARY. . His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, President. !iIIRGEONMr. Kiernan, Member , of the Koyal College, . ' Lohdon. ' ' • GOVERNORS—EarI of Egremont, Earl of Leitrim, Hon. Col. J. Barry, M.P. John LatouChe, M. P. • THE Royal and. Noble - Patrons of the above • INSTITUTION, for the exclusive Treatment of VE - NERAL COMPLAINTS, and their dangerous consequences, in order to insure the benefits that have resulted from it, se lected Mr. KIERNAN as its Surgeon, (standing high on the list of the Royal Uollege) from having directed his chief at tention to those diseases. It is the misfortune of Pat:e4s under such complaints, to he too often 'the dupes of illite-• rate PreterJers, who practise on the credulity by titles and specious promises. Against this'class (of late so numerous aini da:ing), Mr. Kiernan conceives it a part of his official duty to caution the Public, by pointing to the List of the Royal College, published in Febi nary NIG, as the only sure guide, and that no assertion of Persons assuming such titles, and publicly advertising them, without being sanc tioned by this List, are to be credited. The annual reports of the Lock Dispensary Mill prove, that sonic of the most dangerous cases of Strictures, Debility, and other supposed incurable affections of the G,nierative Organs, have been here radically and successfully treated ; facts which require' no hackneyed testimony of affidavits to trove, but the most re spectable Medical evidence. Mr. KIERNAN may be consulted as usual, by both Sexe s ., at his house, 21, Lower Charlotte-street, ,Bedford-squarel where Letters froni Town and COuntry are to be addressed, and the necessary Advice and Medicine will . , be ,given, or sent, to aurpart of the. United Kingdom. Just published, price 4s. Second Edition, Practical Ob servations on the above Diseases, by F. Kiernan,' and may be . had at No. 174, Fleet-street, Ns. 20, ratentosterrrm, and No. 10, Crown-court, The auricular confession practised by that per suasion is of most extensive influence. The foundation of this dogma lies in the belief that there is a human being on earth who is endued with the, high iirerogative to- forgive sins, past and to come, fix the conditions on which they are to be remitted, and can even delegate that power to an unlimited number of other human beings, in quality'of his "assumed prerogative ot - Gon!s Vice regent on earth And this extraordinary being is called., the. Pope, residing at Rome, and his adhe rents are called RoMan Catholics. 'rim priests initiatea, and to whom . these powers are in part delegated, receive the confes sions of the believers, and are. called Confessors, and those who do so confeis, are hound to dis close to' the priest all their sins'and climes com mitted agaidst GOD and man, not forgetting the Church and its faith. The priest is bound to se- cresy, but has the power to absolve and,dictate the penance accordin g , tolis will, inclination, or sense of propriety. The most unbounded power of perstiasion and'. obedience must I.=,e a natural consequence, and the more sincere the penitent is, the greater the influence. There are absolutions obtained for sins most horrid, imised too much so to be named, and too frequently these absolu tions produce the renewal of like sins and crimes, fostered in the firm belief that the former trail gressions are done away, and that the repeti tion will be pardoned on similar terms. The penances imposed frequentlyconsist in gab staining from certain kinds of meats, indulgen cies, and mortifications at times, in charitable gifts, endowing places of worship, monastries, !, • pilgrimages, set prayers, masses. 'Jr! fasnijy con nections, the,father confessor• will perhaps incul- 2,010,Q21 Another reason of my doubting is, the increase from two.miltions.to six millions in about 75 years-, in a country not receiving Emigrants to settle new land, appears incredible. The great difference between the two religious persuasions has become in my mind, still less credible, in consequence of recollecting the strong opposition made in Parlia ment by the favourers of the Catholic Question (and I think Sir JOHN NOWPolrr in particulai), in the debate on the Irish Population Enumera tion Bill, as to the noticing to what religious persuasion the person enumerated belonged, which would have probably shown the -Catholic having shot with a 16hg bow% at random. If not Os :taken, the enumeration. of Ireland has"never been completed; probably . it is found no easy task.. It Will be a curious d ocument if .correct. To admit -to politiCal power, in an increased ratiO,' bigoted superstitious individnalS, moreover labour under the sway of foreign in fluence, and a home priLstbOod, independent of the State, appears dangerous in the extreme. It does not admit of an experiment by, wa - y of Trial. It is'A vulgar' but not unapt. observation,.'' the devil is - easier raised than laid-!'' With-the excep." tion of Spain, and perhaps Portugal, the sAncir monions regard of the lOwer classes 'in Ireland, assisted in patt by the Clergy, for the Pope_, is: at the next high pitch in Ireland, of all European States, and it behoves every Protestant to: ward off their becoming a sacrifice to this regard. A writer, remarking on the fervor of Catholics to \ make converts, says—Put one carnivorous animal ilia Park with various granivorous animals, he will endeavour to devour all. So acts Catho lic zeal to secure converts, in comparison with Protestant Toleration. WICLIFF. 1, It is proper to observe that we have an old and valuable Correspondent who occasionally adopts this signature as well as the present Writer. re ioc Lo .-'